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Tens of thousands of you watched from home or gathered at more than 300 watch parties across the country -- from Hilo, Hawaii to Mount Vernon, Iowa to Maryville, Tennessee. Inspiring movement leaders, many fighting on the frontlines of this crisis in places like Puerto Rico and the Gulf Coast, laid out the #ClimateResistance plan for 2018.

But, of course, Fossil Free Fast wasnít just a powerful event -- it was the beginning of a new chapter for the grassroots movement for climate justice here in the U.S. The momentum we built together on Wednesday was just the beginning. Now, itís time to get to work.

Watch this wrap-up video capturing some of the most inspiring highlights from Fossil Free Fast -- and share it widely to keep the momentum going as we get ready for whatís next.

While Trump 🦀 Denies, the World Burns 🔥: The State of the Climate in 2018

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As that is happening, ocean acidification continues apace. A recent study found that as acidification has accelerated, the shell structure of mussels has changed dramatically. Their shells are becoming much more unorganized and uneven as the crystals used to build them have shrunk and become "disoriented," according to the study.

Monday, February 05, 2018

By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report

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A recently published survey by the World Economic Forum showed that for the second year running, dangers stemming from extreme weather events are even more threatening to human existence than weapons of mass destruction. This is primarily because extreme weather events are the likeliest to occur, according to the survey.

A study published in the journal Global Environmental Change found that depression and anxiety are linked to concerns over ACD and the fate of the planet. Symptoms include feelings of loneliness and lethargy, along with restless nights and insomnia. The study noted that the most hard-hit on this front are women and people with low incomes.

Increasingly destructive impacts from ACD could cause one million migrants every year to enter the European Union by 2100, according to a new study published in the journal Science. This means that the number of migrants trying to settle in Europe each year will triple by then -- and this is only based on climate trends, not including other geopolitical factors and economics. Wolfram Schlenker, professor at the school of international and public affairs at Columbia University in New York, and lead author of the study, told The Guardian: "Europe will see increasing numbers of desperate people fleeing their home countries."

A January heat wave in Australia was so intense that more than 400 bats from one colony alone boiled alive in southwest Sydney.

Around the same time that was happening in Australia, Florida's iguanas were freezing and falling out of trees amidst a record-breaking cold snap there.

In Switzerland, trees in the Alps are leafing out earlier than they used to, causing the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research to worry that the buds sprout too soon and have negative impacts on their development.

Todayís human beings, and above all Big Oil executives like Rex Tillerson 🦖 and their willing allies like Trump 🦀, are the equivalent of the Clover Comet in their impact 💥 on the earth.

FeB 05, 2018J UAN COLE

Did a Comet Strike Trigger a Recent Ice Age?

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It has long puzzled scientists that the gradual ending of the last glacial maximum or ice age beginning about 20,000 before present, extending into the 13,000s, was interrupted in the 12,000s by another short period, of 1,200 years, of ice age. When that one receded, the earth became and remained relatively warm, so that there were no ice sheets on e.g. Europe as there were during the glacial maximum (Britain was uninhabited for some 9,000 years, with 3 miles of ice on top of it, as though it were Antarctica.) The warming may have been caused by the release of CO2 from the Southern Ocean.

Agelbert NOTE: If you did not know that fully 78% of the electricity generated from coal power plants in the USA must be subsidized by we-the-people (NOT counting the socialized COST, hidden in plain sight, subsidy of lung damaging pollution and climate change) BECAUSE they CANNOT run at a profit, then you should watch this video interview.

Following another record year of ďnaturalĒ catastrophes, Canadian climate scientist and You tube activist Paul Beckwith works over our tenuous situation with host Alex Smith. Radio Ecoshock 180207

Has the weather gone off the rails? Are we falling off a climate cliff already? To find out what is going on, Iím calling up our regular scientist correspondent Paul Beckwith. Heís got a Masters Degree. He taught climate science at two Universities. Now Paul is educating the world with his many climate videos.

Listen to or download this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (14 MB)

Sea level rise is accelerating, could lead to twice as much sea level rise by 2100 than previously expected

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A study using satellite data found that not only are sea levels rising ó but the rate is accelerating.

Sea levels might be rising two times faster than we thought, a new study suggests.

Steve Nerem, a professor of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder and lead author on the paper, analyzed 25 years of satellite data to calculate how fast sea levels are rising as a result of climate change. He found that sea levels are currently growing by 3 mm/year, but this isnít a steady growth. The rate is accelerating by 0.08 mm/year every year. It might not seem like much, but it picks up year after year and in the long-term, it can end up making a big difference.

ďThis acceleration, driven mainly by accelerated melting in Greenland and Antarctica, has the potential to double the total sea level rise by 2100 as compared to projections that assume a constant rateĖto more than 60 cm instead of about 30,Ē said Nerem.

He also says that his models are extremely conservative, as he didnít consider any major events such as the collapse of important ice sheets or accelerating global warming. This means that in reality, we can probably expect sea levels to grow even more than his predictions.

Last year, one of the largest icebergs in history broke off broke off from the Larsen C ice. The massive 2,200-square-mile iceberg called A-68 has exposed an ecosystem that has been hidden beneath the ice for thousands of years.

Now, a diverse team made up of scientists from nine research institutes around the world is urgently traveling to the area where the iceberg calved to probe the seabed before itís too late.

A daring expedition and lifeforms removed from time

The researchers are supposed to leave from the Falkland Islands to the calving site on 21 February, where they will spend three weeks until March 2018 on board the research ship RRS James Clark Ross.

The A-68 iceberg is one of the largest ever observed on Earth. Itís about as big as the state of Delaware and holds four times more ice than what gets melted from Greenlandís ice sheet in a year. Scientists had been preparing for A-68ís split from Larsen C for months before the calving, ever since they witnessed a crack in the ice shelf extending over 100 miles in length.

About Ed Hawkins - Climate scientist in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) at the University of Reading. IPCC AR5 Contributing Author. Can be found on twitter too: @ed_hawkins

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Guest post by Geert Jan van Oldenborgh

The obvious first-order hypothesis is that warm extremes are getting warmer and cold extremes less cold. Severe precipitation tends to increase due to the higher moisture content of warmer air. Sea level rise simply heightens storms urges. Other extremes do not have as obvious first-order trends.

Figure 1. Trend in the temperature of the warmest day of the year as a multiple of the global mean temperature rise. Source: NOAA/NCEI/GHCN-D stations with at least 50 years of data via the KNMI Climate Explorer.